St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-22
ORDINANCE No. $40.

An Ordinance to Grant The Eureka I'M
provement Company of st. Paul the
Right to Use Certain Streets.
The Common Council of the City of st
Paul do Ordain as follows:
Section l. That the privilege is hereby
granted to The Eureka Improvement
company of st. Paul to erect such tele-
electric currents in the streets
of the city of st. Paul at
such place or places and on such
streets as may be approved 10y the said
Common Council, under the supervision
of the City Engineer and Committee on
Streets, such poles, together with the
wires thereon and therein, to be subject
to removal as the Common Council NAV
at any time direct, at the cost and eX-
penSe Of said company. The said The
Eureka Improvement company hereby
assumes all liability that may be caused
by the erection of such poles and the use
OF the said electricity, and shall at all
times save the City of st. Paul harmless
therefrom and from all damages grow
ing out thereof.
Sec Nothing herein contained
shall give to said The Eureka Improve
mcnt company the exclusive privilege
of using electric light in the City of st.
Paul.
Sec. 3. That said The Eureka I'M
provement company be and is hereby
permitted to erect poles for stringing
wires for carrying electric currents for
the purpose of furnishing light and
power on the following streets in said
city, to-wit: Cherokee avenue, Della
ware avenue, Smith avenue.
Cambridge street. Prescott street,
Midway avenue Fillmore avenue, Star
key street. Chicago avenue. Custer
street, Concord street, Winifred street.
State street, Isabel street, Dakota ave-
hue, South Robert street, Ohio street,
Fairfield avenue, George street, Eaton
avenue, Oakdale avenue, Hall avenue,
and on such other avenues. streets or al
leys as the Common Council OF the City
OF st. Paul may from time to time duly
authorize by resolution passed by vote
OF tWO-thlrdS of all the members elect,
all of said poles to be under the super
vision of and subject to the inspection
and control of the City Engineer and
Committee on Streets, and upon and un-
der the following conditions and in
structlonS, to-wit: Such poles shall not
be less than forty feet in height above
the ground, and shall not be less than
twelve inches in diameter at the bottom.
and six inches in diameter at the top:
they shall be planed and shall be
painted a dark color for the distance
of six feet from the ground.
and from that point to the ton they shall
be painted white; they shall be set one
hundred feet apart, except otherwise
expressly permitted by City Engineer,
and at least five feet at the top of all the
poles of said company shall be, in con-
sIderatlOn of the passage of this Ordi-
nance, the exclusive property of the
city, and reserved for the use of the Fire
and Police Departments of said city.
And IN case any other corporations,
companies or persons are now or shall
be at any time hereafter permitted by
the Common Council of said city to erect
poles or string its wires for the purpose
of electric lighting in said city, or to use
the streets of said city for the purpose of
electric lighting, and such cor
poration or corporations, company or
companies, person or persons, shall
desire to use the poles so erected by
said The Eureka Improvement company
for the purpose of supporting the wires
for such purpose, such corporations,
companies or persons shall be entitled
to do so upon paying to said The Eureka
Improvement company, its successors
or assigns, the pr0portionate share of
the cost of procuring and erecting such
poles, to be determined as follows:
Upon the erection of poles upon any of
said streets, said The Eureka Improve
ment company. shall Immediately report
to said City Engineer the actual cost of
such poles as erected, and said City En-
gineer shall ascertain and determine the
actual cost of said poles SO erected and
certify the amount which he shall find
to be correct, and keep record thereof
in his Office for public inspection. Upon
the first application as aforesaid to use
the poles so erected, the applicant shall
pany aforesaid, its successors or assigns.
One-half of said actual cost of the poles
so used as determined by said City Eli
gineer; and, in case of a second applica-
ton, the applicant shall pay one-third
of such cost of the poles so used, the
same to be divided equally between the